This here functions as a cover page and record of all the aRt of the Figure workshops. Each iteration has had a slightly different structure, length and topic coverage - ranging from anything between short intros to programming, advanced dataviz and interactive graphs, data wrangling, and text/corpus linguistics. Besides standalone events, venues have included summer schools, academic retreats, invited lectures, and international conferences and hackathons, so far in 5 countries across Europe. All workshops have been based on the R language.
As a humanities scholar myself, I specialize in helping humanities and social science scholars and others with little to no coding experience get started with programming - the ultimate transferable skill, the way I see it - infinitely useful both for doing science and for those planning to move to industry, and in general, for saving time on repetitive tasks and making one’s life easier. My day job (which takes most of my time) is being a researcher, currently at the CUDAN Lab, where I use the skills that I teach in my research on a daily basis.
The focus of most of the workshops has been data visualization. Why? Because (1) I believe data visualization is an integral component of doing science, and (2) it’s more fun to learn programming when you can immedately see and interpret the results of your first coding attempts (and making nice plots in R is very easy and intuitive, especially with packages like ggplot2).
If you have signed up to one of the workshops, you should have received an email ahead of time with instructions; if you are here because you signed up but did not get an email, contact me or the organizing party to make sure you are registered. If you’re here considering to invite me to teach or consult (online of offline), do feel free to get in touch - I’d be happy to discuss tailoring a course, workshop or hackathon to suit the data, needs and interests of yourself and your colleagues or students.
– Andres Karjus, PhD
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Workshops:
Future
Recently
2020
2019
2018
More distant past
- University of Edinburgh PPLS Writing Centre short intro to R workshops, 2017-2018 - Teaching in earlier years: courses at the University of Tartu 2014-2016; a workshop at the Academia Salensis summer school, Lithuania 2015.
The short intro motivational “why-use-R” slides are here.
It’s all open source: the entire Github repo is here.